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Map of the continents through geologic time

Sequence of five globes show positions of the continents and oceans in Permian (225 million years ago), Triassic (200 million years ago), Jurassic (135 million years ago), Cretaceous (65 million years ago), and present periods, as the single landmass of Pangaea broke up and the continents drifted apart.

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